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City officials said this week they will continue a freeze on police promotions to the rank of sergeant until a civil suit filed by five black Cambridge police officers is heard in federal court later this month...
...class action suit on July 21 against city officials and officials of the State Civil Service Division, claiming the blacks were being denied promotions "due to the racial practices and policies of the defendants." The blacks seek a court order to have all eligible black patrolmen promoted to sergeant and to force the city to implement a "affirmative action" plan for police recruitment and promotion...
...hapenny Cottage for a while seem to be little more than the kind of dotty ménage à cinq that Wodehouse might assemble on a bilious day: Adela Bastable, a large, dim, goodhearted spinster; her brother Bernard, a retired brigadier with a bad leg; Shorty, once a quartermaster sergeant, now a friend and factotum; George Zeyer, a bedridden history professor (Bernard's brother-in-law); and Marigold Pyke, a faded beauty who cutely refers to drinks as "drinkle-pinkles" and English pounds as "poundies," thus driving Bernard round the bend. Amis is also clearly at work...
...lists more than 220 books, articles and reports in its bibliography. The names of the British, American, Polish, Dutch and German soldiers and civilians he interviewed fill a 35-page appendix. A cast of thousands supplies quotes: from Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands to an acting mess sergeant from Surrey...
...business know how important it is to get the facts. So if anyone gives you an answer to your questions that you think is not sufficient, why, you just come back to me. And to help answer any of your questions on the way, I'm going to assign Sergeant Brownwen to assist...